After My Rebirth, I Ended Up Happily Ever After with the Saintess - Chapter 11

“Ring One, First Match, Ye Hua versus Ye Li!”

The steward’s loud voice pierced through the clamor, clearly spreading throughout the entire martial arts arena.

In an instant, almost everyone’s attention focused on Ring One. The matches currently taking place on the other rings seemed to momentarily lose their appeal.

“Here it comes! The show is starting!”

“Look! Ye Hua is up! Full of momentum!”

“What about that waste? Don’t tell me she was too scared to come up?”

Amidst the discussions and scrutiny of the crowd, Ye Hua leaped onto the ring, landing nimbly with the typical arrogance of a direct descendant. He twisted his neck and flexed his wrists, a cruel, cat-playing-with-a-mouse smile on his face, looking down condescendingly at the figure slowly walking towards the stage.

Ye Li’s steps remained unhurried, even appearing somewhat overly calm. She ascended the steps, one by one, a stark contrast to Ye Hua’s flamboyant posture.

“Both sides in position!” The referee was a stern-faced middle-aged steward with a cultivation at the Condensing Pulse Realm, responsible for maintaining order and judging the outcome.

Ye Hua chuckled, casually cupped his fist towards the referee, but his eyes were fixed on Ye Li. He licked his lips: “Steward, don’t worry, it’ll be over quickly.”

The referee frowned but said nothing, simply looking at Ye Li. Ye Li nodded slightly, acknowledging the greeting.

“Hmph, putting on airs!” Seeing her composed demeanor, the fire in Ye Hua’s heart flared up even more. He lowered his voice, speaking maliciously: “Just wait and see how you act later! I’ll make you beg for mercy on your knees!”

Ye Li acted as if she hadn’t heard, her gaze calmly turned to the referee, signaling her readiness.

“Begin the match—Start!” The referee’s arm swung down sharply!

Almost the instant the words fell!

“Waste! Get down on the ground!” Ye Hua roared, the Initial Spirit Realm Middle Stage spiritual energy in his body bursting forth without reservation. His body shot out like an arrow from a bowstring, fiercely pouncing towards Ye Li!

He had no intention of probing at all. His very first move was his most proficient and immensely powerful Human-Tier Mid-Grade Martial Skill—Rock Splitting Palm! The palm wind howled, carrying a brute force momentum, aimed directly at Ye Li’s face! The speed was extremely fast, and the angle quite tricky. He clearly intended to finish the fight in a single move, utterly crushing Ye Li to the ground and humiliating her in front of everyone!

A few gasps could be heard from the audience below, as if they could already envision Ye Li being slammed away, spitting blood and collapsing. Ye Lang and others even showed excited and cruel smiles on their faces.

On the high platform, Third Elder Ye Lang’s mouth corner imperceptibly curled up. First Elder Ye Xiao’s eyes narrowed slightly. Patriarch Ye Tian remained calm, but a subtle ripple seemed to pass through the depths of his eyes.

Facing this fierce, sharp, and rock-splitting palm strike, Ye Li moved!

Her movement was incredibly simple!

She didn’t execute any flashy martial skills, engage in a head-on collision, or even make a large dodge.

Just as the ferocious palm wind was about to touch her body, her body was like a flexible willow in the wind. With an angle that seemed impossible yet utterly natural, she subtly slipped one step to the right!

Just this one step!

Perfectly timed, reaching the peak of subtlety!

Ye Hua’s certain-to-hit strike almost grazed past her nose. The sharp palm wind only ruffled her hair backwards, failing to even touch her clothes!

“What?!” Ye Hua’s confident attack missed. His strength was spent, and his body leaned slightly forward due to the forward momentum. He was instantly startled and inwardly cried out that something was wrong!

However, in the flash of lightning where his old strength was gone and new strength had not yet been born—

Ye Li’s counterattack arrived!

Still no complicated moves.

She merely raised her right hand, her five fingers slightly clenched, not into a fist, but two fingers together like a sword—her index and middle fingers aligned. The fingertips were wrapped in a layer of subtle but incredibly condensed, icy spiritual energy. With lightning speed, she aimed and precisely struck the Danzhong acupuncture point on Ye Hua’s chest, exposed due to his forward lean!

This single strike was Fast! Accurate! Ruthless!

It surpassed the limit of what most people in the audience could perceive with their naked eyes!

Even more terrifyingly, the moment this finger was extended, a chilling, deathly mental pressure suddenly erupted from Ye Li’s calm eyes, as if containing the horrifying sight of mountains of corpses and seas of blood! This pressure coalesced into a beam, like an invisible sharp needle, fiercely stabbing towards Ye Hua’s mind!

Ye Hua felt his vision blur, as if he saw a pair of supreme eyes indifferently looking down on all beings. Boundless fear and coldness instantly seized his soul! His entire body’s blood seemed to freeze at that moment. His thoughts stalled, his movements stiffened, and he even forgot the most basic defense or block!

He could only watch as those two slender fingers, which seemed capable of piercing through anything, landed on his chest.

“Pfft!”

An extremely faint sound, yet clearly heard by the few people nearby.

Ye Hua’s forward pounce abruptly froze, as if struck by a paralyzing spell. The fierce smile and cruelty on his face instantly solidified, transforming into extreme shock and disbelief.

The next second!

“Agh—!”

He let out a muffled groan of intense pain. His entire body was as if brutally slammed by an invisible giant elephant. His feet lifted off the ground, and he was sent flying backward! He couldn’t help but spit out a mouthful of fresh blood, drawing a dazzling arc in the air!

Bang!

His body heavily slammed onto the edge of the ring several meters away, then rolled two more times before stopping, directly fainting and losing consciousness.

Where his chest was struck, his clothing was torn. A clear finger indentation was visible, surrounded by a thin layer of white frost, emitting wisps of cold air.

Silence!

Deathly silence!

The entire martial arts arena was as if the mute button had been pressed.

Everyone widened their eyes and opened their mouths, their expressions frozen in a moment of astonishment, confusion, and disbelief.

The wind seemed to have stopped flowing.

Time seemed to have paused.

One move?

No! It couldn’t even be considered one move!

Ye Li merely dodged to the side, and then… extended a single finger?

That Initial Spirit Realm Middle Stage Ye Hua, a somewhat famous, arrogant figure among the direct descendants, was just… defeated? Knocked unconscious?

How was this possible?!

Was it an illusion?

Countless people instinctively rubbed their eyes, doubting if they had seen correctly.

Below the stage, the smile on Ye Lang’s face completely froze, transforming into a ghost-like astonishment and confusion. Ye Ming, Ye Liang, and others beside him were stunned as if struck by lightning, motionless.

On the high platform, Third Elder Ye Lang, who had been sitting steadily, suddenly trembled, spilling tea without realizing it, his face filled with shock. First Elder Ye Xiao’s sharp eyes suddenly shot out a brilliant light, his body slightly leaning forward. Fourth Elder Ye Yun covered her red lips, her beautiful eyes full of shock. Even Patriarch Ye Tian, who usually showed no emotion, noticeably twitched his brow, his gaze instantly becoming sharp as a knife, firmly locked onto the calm girl who stood with her finger withdrawn on the ring!

The referee steward was also stunned for several seconds before suddenly reacting. He quickly stepped forward, checked Ye Hua’s condition, and confirmed that he was merely knocked unconscious and suffered some internal injuries, with no danger to his life. Taking a deep breath, he used a voice trembling with disbelief to loudly announce:

“R-Ring One, First Match, the winner—Ye Li!”

Huala—!

Only then was the deathly silence completely broken. Like a bursting dam, a massive roar of clamor rushed up into the sky, almost overturning the entire martial arts arena!

“She… she won? Ye Li won?”

“One move?! Just one move?! I didn’t even see what happened!”

“Ye Hua is in the Initial Spirit Realm Middle Stage! How could he not even withstand one move?”

“What kind of finger technique was that? It was so… terrifying!”

“Isn’t she supposed to be a waste? What… what is her true strength?!”

Exclamations, doubts, and discussions swept through like a tsunami. Everyone’s eyes were fixed on the composed girl standing on the ring, as if they were seeing her for the first time.

Crippled? Waste?

If this was a waste, then what was Ye Hua, who was instantly defeated? And what were they, who were inferior to Ye Hua?

The enormous contrast caused a powerful shock to everyone’s perception!

Ye Li had staged a comeback! With an absolutely dominant, absolutely crushing stance, she completed her debut!

She stood on the ring, slightly regulating her breath. That strike just now, seemingly simple, had actually condensed most of the spiritual energy she could currently mobilize, and furthermore contained a trace of the mental deterrent she used in combat in her previous life. The goal was to secure an instant kill and shock the entire arena. The effect was clearly better than she had anticipated.

She could feel countless gazes falling upon her, filled with shock, scrutiny, disbelief, and… deep wariness.

She walked down the ring expressionlessly, ignoring the discussions around her that were almost drowning her out. She returned to her quiet corner, closed her eyes, and began to meditate, as if the earth-shattering blow just now had nothing to do with her.

But the atmosphere of the entire martial arts arena had been completely changed because of her.

The attitude of the elders was distinctly different. Their gaze towards her was no longer indifference or curiosity, but carried judgment and solemnity.

The other participants who had yet to compete, especially those direct descendant geniuses considered as seeded players, now had serious expressions. Their eyes towards Ye Li were filled with alertness and scrutiny. They had truly begun to regard this name as an opponent that needed to be taken seriously.

Ye Li, this name, was like cold water thrown into boiling oil, utterly exploding within the Ye Family.

The sensational effect of the waste-to-genius comeback was beginning to ferment at an astonishing speed.

And all of this was just the beginning.